The Clifton clarion., 1887-02-09
Prescott Pointers.

energy and industry have been
 held up to the gay and fes-
 tive youth of all nations, as an edi- flying example of what could be
 accomplished by untiring and per
 sistent effort, (which characteristics,
 by the way, seem to have been
 copied from nature by the ubiqui-
 tous and immediately gally book
 agent) fades away into absolute ir-
 significance when compared with
 the habits of the 14th legislature,
 the bee busy or otherwise, looses
 by comparison, in so much that
 while the bee works like the dick
 ems 1t is because 1t is the usual
 thing for bees to do, and they don't
 know any better; whereas every
 one knows that it Is not custom
 ary for an Arizona Legislature to
 be very busy and is therefore more
 creditable to them for that reason.
 Some malicious persons" may
 hint that although they differ from
 the bee tribe in the first part of the
 comparison. the second part applies
 to both with equal truth; but to
 prevent such scandal from casting
 odium upon your correspondent
 by implying connivance at such
 reasonable and utterly untruthful sayings I take this opportunity of stating that I have no connection whatever with any such parties, and that I believe that they do know better.
 Poor Old Judge Peel, who is chairman of the judicial committee, has more work than any one, as nearly all bills have to go through his committees hands and already his steps are getting more feeble, and the suffering look which ami mates his left eye brow and lends to his features the expression of martyr to the cause of duty; would appeal (chestnuts) to the most fiinty hearted economist of them all, and is in itself an eloquent plea for the employment of one or more com mittee clerks.
 The various and ever varying ramifcations of the division of Yavapai is still the all absorbing question of the hour, the bills are still laying on the table awaiting some event in the council; if they can only get one member over to their side in the council the three bills will fly through the house like the proverbial streak of greas- ed Tightening.
 A day or two ago Prescott, which had until then, contented itself with enjoying herself by local or showed their town clock 37 minutes ahead, and the city dads" decreed that hereafter, Prescott would regulate her smiles and sighs, her dinners and society events and all other minutiae, which go to make up the sum of existence at the gay capital by rail road time; whether the object of this move was in compliment to the railroad or the result of deep Mephistophelian scheme, in case the bills for the division of Yava- pal among the mag-pais, should pass the house, to prove an alibi.
 Petitions are now the order of the day, one day one will be pre- sented by the Yavapais showing beyond a doubt that if the county Is allowed to be divided, the county will be irremediably and effectively | ruined, and next day It will be | ianked by a couple from the Yava- pirates las the Journal Miner fac etiously calls them) which throws m altogether different light on the affair. It is as hard to predict | the particular fate which awaits these bills as it is to predict how much pie member of the legisla- lure can eat by the size of his mouth or the color of his necktie.
 A new wing has been added to he combination by the notice giv- 'n to-day, by Mir. Ming, of Ora nam, that he would, at an early | lay, introduce bill to create l new county out of the counties of Graham and Cochise. it will take n Wilcox which will probably be he county seat, the name of it I ,ould not learn and it is barely pos 'ible that the bill will not be intro luced at all, but if it is, as a matter 'f course, they will all hang to- 5ether (not literally and the four pills will all share tho same end, either pass or be killed.
 The bill to appoint a chaplain or the territorial prison is in